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Military service
Service number:
M/10648
Age:
27
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Calgary Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Death:
August 13, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XII. H. 15.
Additional information
Son of John and Martha Palfenier, of Pendryl, Alberta. Husband of Grace L. Palfenier, of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Brother of Lance Sergeant Theodore Emery Palfenier, who served with the South Alberta Regiment and who died on September 12, 1944.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Alvin Herman Palfenier
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Photo of Alvin Herman Palfenier
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Photo of Alvin Herman Palfenier
Photo of Alvin Palfenier of the Calgary Highlanders, wearing a unit shirt early in the war. -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Grave marker
Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in France
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alvin Herman Palfenier
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alvin Herman Palfenier
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alvin Herman Palfenier
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alvin Herman Palfenier
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 410 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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